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Galatians 3:2 — King James Version← Study notes

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?


Galatians 3:2Greek Interlinear

Greek · Galatians 3:216 words
GreekMeaning
τοῦτοtouto
ThisdemonstrativeG3778
μόνονmonon
onlyadjectiveG3441
θέλωthelō
I wishverbG2309
μαθεῖνmathein
to learnverbG3129
ἀφ’aph’
fromprepositionG575
ὑμῶνhymōn
youpronounG4771
ἐξex
byprepositionG1537
ἔργωνergōn
worksnounG2041
νόμουnomou
of the LawnounG3551
τὸto
thearticleG3588
πνεῦμαpneuma
SpiritnounG4151
ἐλάβετεelabete
did you receiveverbG2983
ē
orwordG2228
ἐξex
byprepositionG1537
ἀκοῆςakoēs
hearingnounG189
πίστεωςpisteōs
of faith?nounG4102
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Galatians 3:2

“This only would I learn from you, Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?” As you do not attend, says he, to long discourses, nor are willing to contemplate the magnitude of this Economy, I am desirous, (seeing your extreme ignorance,) to convince you by concise arguments and a summary method of proof. Before, he had convinced them by what he said to Peter; now, he encounters them entirely with arguments, drawn not from what had…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Commentary on Galatians, Chapter 3
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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